instructure/canvas-ios
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
13 Months active
Languages Used
SwiftXMLObjective-CSVGJavaScriptYAMLMakefile
Technical Skills
API IntegrationDependency ManagementMobile DevelopmentRefactoringSwiftUI Development
Suhaib Al-Absi
PROFILE
Suhaib Al-absi
Suhaib Alabsi contributed to the instructure/canvas-ios repository by delivering robust features and stability improvements across grading, submissions, and user workflows. He engineered solutions for cross-shard routing, type-safe submission filtering, and offline sync, addressing complex multi-tenant and session management challenges. Leveraging Swift, SwiftUI, and Core Data, Suhaib refactored UI components, enhanced accessibility, and introduced widgets and feature flags to modernize the app’s architecture. His work included API integration, data persistence, and rigorous unit testing, resulting in more reliable grading, improved accessibility, and streamlined user experiences. The depth of his contributions reflects strong ownership and technical versatility.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
38%Features
Repository Contributions
81Total
Bugs
36
Commits
81
Features
22
Lines of code
34,051
Activity Months13
Your Network
24 people
Work History
October 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for instructure/canvas-ios: Delivered GetSyllabusSummary use case to surface Ungraded Pages and Discussions in the Syllabus To-Do list, improving task visibility for students and instructors. Stabilized the PDF Annotation Toolbar in SpeedGrader to prevent intermittent disappearance across contexts. Fixed data loading for observed students in the Parent Inbox by refactoring ReactiveStore and the Live interactor. Improved Inbox integrity by disabling messaging in concluded courses and providing clear user feedback. These changes reduce support friction, increase reliability, and demonstrate end-to-end ownership of feature delivery, data layer correctness, and UI/UX resilience.
4 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for instructure/canvas-ios: Delivered GetSyllabusSummary use case to surface Ungraded Pages and Discussions in the Syllabus To-Do list, improving task visibility for students and instructors. Stabilized the PDF Annotation Toolbar in SpeedGrader to prevent intermittent disappearance across contexts. Fixed data loading for observed students in the Parent Inbox by refactoring ReactiveStore and the Live interactor. Improved Inbox integrity by disabling messaging in concluded courses and providing clear user feedback. These changes reduce support friction, increase reliability, and demonstrate end-to-end ownership of feature delivery, data layer correctness, and UI/UX resilience.
October 2025
September 2025
8 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 highlights for instructure/canvas-ios: Strengthened cross-tenant reliability and user experience through targeted fixes and feature improvements across grading, submissions, and session management. Key accomplishments include cross-shard routing and environment handling improvements that stabilize authentication and session persistence across consortia accounts, quizzes, Studio Embeds, and front-page routing by incorporating shard IDs, ensuring AppEnvironment is passed, and enabling environment overrides and cross-domain cookie sharing. Delivered robust, type-safe submission filtering and SpeedGrader data access via a new Filter struct, replacing brittle string-based filtering and enhancing routing/view models to support status, score, and section filtering. Fixed critical access issues and display correctness: teacher access to student annotation submissions via proper AppEnvironment wiring, and correct Gradebook visibility for items with hideInGradeBook=true. Overall impact: improved reliability, performance, and data accuracy in grading and submissions, reduced user blockers, and clearer data visibility for both students and teachers. Technologies/skills demonstrated: cross-domain session management, AppEnvironment wiring, shard-aware architecture, type-safe filtering, view-model routing, and multi-tenant debugging across a complex iOS canvas environment.
September 2025
8 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 highlights for instructure/canvas-ios: Strengthened cross-tenant reliability and user experience through targeted fixes and feature improvements across grading, submissions, and session management. Key accomplishments include cross-shard routing and environment handling improvements that stabilize authentication and session persistence across consortia accounts, quizzes, Studio Embeds, and front-page routing by incorporating shard IDs, ensuring AppEnvironment is passed, and enabling environment overrides and cross-domain cookie sharing. Delivered robust, type-safe submission filtering and SpeedGrader data access via a new Filter struct, replacing brittle string-based filtering and enhancing routing/view models to support status, score, and section filtering. Fixed critical access issues and display correctness: teacher access to student annotation submissions via proper AppEnvironment wiring, and correct Gradebook visibility for items with hideInGradeBook=true. Overall impact: improved reliability, performance, and data accuracy in grading and submissions, reduced user blockers, and clearer data visibility for both students and teachers. Technologies/skills demonstrated: cross-domain session management, AppEnvironment wiring, shard-aware architecture, type-safe filtering, view-model routing, and multi-tenant debugging across a complex iOS canvas environment.
August 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025: Delivered targeted reliability and UX improvements to the Canvas iOS app, with a focus on accurate grading/submission views, robust error handling, and actionable crash analytics. Key features delivered include UI enhancements for assignment statuses, improved visibility of group submissions, and a consolidated UI/component cleanup. Major bugs resolved improved file access for QED Root users and corrected non-negative counts in the submission breakdown, contributing to more trustworthy grading and reporting. Overall, these efforts improve user trust, reduce support incidents, and enable faster diagnosis through integrated crash reporting and test stability.
8 Commits • 4 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025: Delivered targeted reliability and UX improvements to the Canvas iOS app, with a focus on accurate grading/submission views, robust error handling, and actionable crash analytics. Key features delivered include UI enhancements for assignment statuses, improved visibility of group submissions, and a consolidated UI/component cleanup. Major bugs resolved improved file access for QED Root users and corrected non-negative counts in the submission breakdown, contributing to more trustworthy grading and reporting. Overall, these efforts improve user trust, reduce support incidents, and enable faster diagnosis through integrated crash reporting and test stability.
August 2025
July 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Jul 1, 2025In July 2025, the Canvas iOS team delivered focused feature improvements and reliability fixes that enhance student workflows, grading efficiency, and data accuracy. Key features delivered include a configurable Student App Home Screen Widget to display the course total grade with course selection and an option to base on graded assignments; unified student ordering between SpeedGrader and Submissions via the SubmissionsSortComparator, removing deprecated sorting flags to ensure consistent ordering; and a SwiftUI-based redesign of the SpeedGrader Rubrics UI with an experimental feature flag to control visibility. Major bugs fixed include removing duplicate Planner events when tapping the To-do widget’s day button by adding a refresh after date updates; and improving the accuracy of the NotSubmitted filter in Submissions to correctly identify not-submitted items, including cases with grading but no submission time or score. Overall impact includes streamlined grading workflows, improved user experience, and more reliable course data, contributing to faster feedback cycles and better decision-making for instructors and students. Technologies and skills demonstrated include SwiftUI-based UI modernization, new view models, SubmissionsSortComparator introduction, robust filtering logic, and improved AppEnvironment propagation and ID handling for broader access scenarios.
July 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Jul 1, 2025In July 2025, the Canvas iOS team delivered focused feature improvements and reliability fixes that enhance student workflows, grading efficiency, and data accuracy. Key features delivered include a configurable Student App Home Screen Widget to display the course total grade with course selection and an option to base on graded assignments; unified student ordering between SpeedGrader and Submissions via the SubmissionsSortComparator, removing deprecated sorting flags to ensure consistent ordering; and a SwiftUI-based redesign of the SpeedGrader Rubrics UI with an experimental feature flag to control visibility. Major bugs fixed include removing duplicate Planner events when tapping the To-do widget’s day button by adding a refresh after date updates; and improving the accuracy of the NotSubmitted filter in Submissions to correctly identify not-submitted items, including cases with grading but no submission time or score. Overall impact includes streamlined grading workflows, improved user experience, and more reliable course data, contributing to faster feedback cycles and better decision-making for instructors and students. Technologies and skills demonstrated include SwiftUI-based UI modernization, new view models, SubmissionsSortComparator introduction, robust filtering logic, and improved AppEnvironment propagation and ID handling for broader access scenarios.
June 2025
8 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for instructure/canvas-ios: Delivered notable features and stability fixes across the Student app and core workflows, driving user productivity and data accuracy. Key features delivered include a To-Do Widget for the Student App, dynamic font size enhancements for the navigation bar, and improved submission list filtering, categorization, and sorting. Cross-shard accessibility got strengthened through fixes to announcement routing and module file previews, and a Rubric UI layout refactor to prevent overlap in the student submission view. These efforts improve task management, readability, data integrity, cross-team collaboration, and cross-project consistency. Technologies demonstrated include Swift/iOS UI, Dynamic Type, Auto Layout, cross-module wiring, and cross-shard routing.
8 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for instructure/canvas-ios: Delivered notable features and stability fixes across the Student app and core workflows, driving user productivity and data accuracy. Key features delivered include a To-Do Widget for the Student App, dynamic font size enhancements for the navigation bar, and improved submission list filtering, categorization, and sorting. Cross-shard accessibility got strengthened through fixes to announcement routing and module file previews, and a Rubric UI layout refactor to prevent overlap in the student submission view. These efforts improve task management, readability, data integrity, cross-team collaboration, and cross-project consistency. Technologies demonstrated include Swift/iOS UI, Dynamic Type, Auto Layout, cross-module wiring, and cross-shard routing.
June 2025
May 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 – Instructure Canvas iOS delivered focused features and reliability improvements that drive business value and user satisfaction. The work emphasizes cross-tenant access reliability, content accessibility, and improved teacher workflows. Key outcomes include stabilizing external tool routing and messaging, improving quiz submission accessibility in WebView, redesigning the teacher submissions UI with forward-looking feature flags, and ensuring UI stability across theme changes and login refreshes. These efforts reduce support burden, improve uptime, and lay groundwork for upcoming capabilities across the Canvas iOS app.
May 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 – Instructure Canvas iOS delivered focused features and reliability improvements that drive business value and user satisfaction. The work emphasizes cross-tenant access reliability, content accessibility, and improved teacher workflows. Key outcomes include stabilizing external tool routing and messaging, improving quiz submission accessibility in WebView, redesigning the teacher submissions UI with forward-looking feature flags, and ensuring UI stability across theme changes and login refreshes. These efforts reduce support burden, improve uptime, and lay groundwork for upcoming capabilities across the Canvas iOS app.
April 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — instructure/canvas-ios: Key stability and offline-capability enhancements focused on multi-account scenarios. The team delivered an Assignment Detail View stability bug fix and introduced an offline sync environment abstraction (CourseSyncEnvironmentResolver) to robustly manage configurations across accounts, resulting in improved UX and offline reliability. Commits touched: 9b0f61499939ed4d7a60171fd8108fc2b30a5343; f94ba97da53d0659132448c1aabc06a609535df2.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — instructure/canvas-ios: Key stability and offline-capability enhancements focused on multi-account scenarios. The team delivered an Assignment Detail View stability bug fix and introduced an offline sync environment abstraction (CourseSyncEnvironmentResolver) to robustly manage configurations across accounts, resulting in improved UX and offline reliability. Commits touched: 9b0f61499939ed4d7a60171fd8108fc2b30a5343; f94ba97da53d0659132448c1aabc06a609535df2.
April 2025
March 2025
9 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Delivered accessibility improvements, flexible grading options, and cross-account reliability for the iOS Canvas app. Key work focused on: 1) Accessibility enhancements including focus management, contrast, and submission announcements to improve auditable feedback and usability; 2) Grading scheme support for points-based vs percentage-based grading with refactored architecture to separate concerns and ensure correct score formatting; 3) Fixes to ensure correct data and visibility for assignments across hierarchical accounts; 4) Offline reliability improvements for Studio videos with proper CoreWebView path handling; 5) Masquerading file submission flow and discussion attachment handling improvements to prevent interference with system pickers and improve downloads/display.
March 2025
9 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Delivered accessibility improvements, flexible grading options, and cross-account reliability for the iOS Canvas app. Key work focused on: 1) Accessibility enhancements including focus management, contrast, and submission announcements to improve auditable feedback and usability; 2) Grading scheme support for points-based vs percentage-based grading with refactored architecture to separate concerns and ensure correct score formatting; 3) Fixes to ensure correct data and visibility for assignments across hierarchical accounts; 4) Offline reliability improvements for Studio videos with proper CoreWebView path handling; 5) Masquerading file submission flow and discussion attachment handling improvements to prevent interference with system pickers and improve downloads/display.
February 2025
13 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: Focused on accessibility, data loading efficiency, and content visibility for Consortia-rooted accounts. Delivered cursor-based GraphQL pagination, comprehensive accessibility improvements across core UI flows, and stability fixes for Split ViewController lifecycle, delivering measurable business value in user experience and performance.
13 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: Focused on accessibility, data loading efficiency, and content visibility for Consortia-rooted accounts. Delivered cursor-based GraphQL pagination, comprehensive accessibility improvements across core UI flows, and stability fixes for Split ViewController lifecycle, delivering measurable business value in user experience and performance.
February 2025
January 2025
4 Commits
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (2025-01) monthly summary for instructure/canvas-ios focusing on data integrity and UI stability improvements in the grading experience. Key features and bugs fixed include enhancements to grading data visibility and navigation reliability, with explicit per-course data persistence improvements and UI stabilization across devices. Key features/bugs delivered: - Grading Data Integrity and Visibility Improvements: Ensured total grades for completed courses are calculated by including completed enrollments and fixed data integrity for grading periods by ensuring unique, course-scoped associations and removing duplicates. Commits: ed257b74cbcba644b0025d185b5a8af44f1a7874; c979a597398e7f09659c355583bdf1c62636abb9. - UI Stability Improvements for Grades UI and iPad Navigation: Stabilized grading period display in Grades Filter (hide filter button during initial load and re-enable related E2E tests) and fixed navigation bar appearance on iPad when swiping back to prevent visual glitches. Commits: 401ebe234a67657ed01f288998ace2ba4c72dd95; 62e0503e20bdd1fec73728a46cdaf8877b0ecf89. Major outcomes: - Improved accuracy and reliability of grading data visibility for students and instructors. - Reduced UI flakiness in grades-related views and on iPad navigation, leading to better user experience and fewer support issues. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - iOS Swift and Core Data-related persistence for per-course grading periods. - UI stability techniques and navigation UI fixes (iPad swipe-back). - E2E test stabilization and test-driven fixes with targeted commits.
January 2025
4 Commits
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (2025-01) monthly summary for instructure/canvas-ios focusing on data integrity and UI stability improvements in the grading experience. Key features and bugs fixed include enhancements to grading data visibility and navigation reliability, with explicit per-course data persistence improvements and UI stabilization across devices. Key features/bugs delivered: - Grading Data Integrity and Visibility Improvements: Ensured total grades for completed courses are calculated by including completed enrollments and fixed data integrity for grading periods by ensuring unique, course-scoped associations and removing duplicates. Commits: ed257b74cbcba644b0025d185b5a8af44f1a7874; c979a597398e7f09659c355583bdf1c62636abb9. - UI Stability Improvements for Grades UI and iPad Navigation: Stabilized grading period display in Grades Filter (hide filter button during initial load and re-enable related E2E tests) and fixed navigation bar appearance on iPad when swiping back to prevent visual glitches. Commits: 401ebe234a67657ed01f288998ace2ba4c72dd95; 62e0503e20bdd1fec73728a46cdaf8877b0ecf89. Major outcomes: - Improved accuracy and reliability of grading data visibility for students and instructors. - Reduced UI flakiness in grades-related views and on iPad navigation, leading to better user experience and fewer support issues. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - iOS Swift and Core Data-related persistence for per-course grading periods. - UI stability techniques and navigation UI fixes (iPad swipe-back). - E2E test stabilization and test-driven fixes with targeted commits.
December 2024
6 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024: Canvas iOS development focused on delivering feature-rich search experiences, stabilizing UI behavior on compact layouts, and hardening backend interactions for diverse account types. Key outcomes include delivering an initial Course Smart Search with UI, models, view models, and interactor logic; integrated within the course details view for quick in-course discovery and results display. Detailed UI polish addressed light/dark mode and keyboard scrolling issues to ensure a consistent UX. In parallel, reliability improvements were implemented for file annotation on compact layouts by conditionally hiding the tab bar when the annotation toolbar is visible, and for submission flows across root accounts via an AppEnvironment refactor to ensure submissions are processed consistently. Additionally, the All Courses screen now respects accessibility by filtering out groups from unpublished courses. Collectively, these changes reduce user friction, improve discovery and engagement, and increase the reliability of core workflows across account types and layouts.
6 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024: Canvas iOS development focused on delivering feature-rich search experiences, stabilizing UI behavior on compact layouts, and hardening backend interactions for diverse account types. Key outcomes include delivering an initial Course Smart Search with UI, models, view models, and interactor logic; integrated within the course details view for quick in-course discovery and results display. Detailed UI polish addressed light/dark mode and keyboard scrolling issues to ensure a consistent UX. In parallel, reliability improvements were implemented for file annotation on compact layouts by conditionally hiding the tab bar when the annotation toolbar is visible, and for submission flows across root accounts via an AppEnvironment refactor to ensure submissions are processed consistently. Additionally, the All Courses screen now respects accessibility by filtering out groups from unpublished courses. Collectively, these changes reduce user friction, improve discovery and engagement, and increase the reliability of core workflows across account types and layouts.
December 2024
November 2024
4 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 (instructure/canvas-ios): Delivered key UI and stability improvements focusing on user-facing accuracy, data integrity, and maintainability. Key features include a SwiftUI-driven Calendar View overhaul with new data models and views to simplify the calendar workflow, and PDF annotations preservation across cache resets to protect user data. Major bugs fixed include correct display and grading state logic for No Submission and On Paper assignments, and a robust audio playback time formatter to prevent crashes. Overall impact includes a smoother user experience for students and parents, reduced crash risk, and stronger data integrity. Technologies demonstrated include SwiftUI, data modeling, unit testing, cache management, and end-to-end feature delivery.
November 2024
4 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 (instructure/canvas-ios): Delivered key UI and stability improvements focusing on user-facing accuracy, data integrity, and maintainability. Key features include a SwiftUI-driven Calendar View overhaul with new data models and views to simplify the calendar workflow, and PDF annotations preservation across cache resets to protect user data. Major bugs fixed include correct display and grading state logic for No Submission and On Paper assignments, and a robust audio playback time formatter to prevent crashes. Overall impact includes a smoother user experience for students and parents, reduced crash risk, and stronger data integrity. Technologies demonstrated include SwiftUI, data modeling, unit testing, cache management, and end-to-end feature delivery.
October 2024
3 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 performance summary for the instructure/canvas-ios repo. The month focused on stabilizing the iOS build for Xcode 16, tightening UI accuracy for user-facing indicators, and refining the annotation workflow in landscape mode. The work delivered system-wide stability with updated dependencies, improved testability through mocks and test configuration updates, and UI fixes that reduce edge-case bugs in production releases.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 performance summary for the instructure/canvas-ios repo. The month focused on stabilizing the iOS build for Xcode 16, tightening UI accuracy for user-facing indicators, and refining the annotation workflow in landscape mode. The work delivered system-wide stability with updated dependencies, improved testability through mocks and test configuration updates, and UI fixes that reduce edge-case bugs in production releases.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness90.4%
Maintainability86.6%
Architecture85.2%
Performance79.8%
AI Usage21.8%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
JavaScriptMakefileObjective-CSVGSwiftXMLYAML
Technical Skills
API IntegrationAccessibilityAnalyticsAppEnvironmentAppIntentsAssignment ManagementAuthenticationBug FixingCalendar UICode CleanupCode OrganizationCombineCombine FrameworkCookie managementCore Data
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